AS SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE SETTLED INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS AND UPPER MIDWEST...COMBINED WITH CLEAR SKIES AND RESIDUAL SNOW COVER...TEMPERATURES FELL BELOW ZERO AT MOST OFFICIAL AIRPORT SITES.

THE COLDEST REPORTED OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURES WERE SIXTEEN DEGREES BELOW ZERO...NEAR CURTIS AND AT RED WILLOW DAM...WHICH IS 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STOCKVILLE IN FRONTIER COUNTY. THE MERCURY PLUNGED TO 15 DEGREES BELOW ZERO AT MEDICINE CREEK DAM...WHICH IS 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STOCKVILLE. EIGHT MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF CALLAWAY IN CUSTER COUNTY... A COOPERATIVE WEATHER OBSERVER NOTATED A LOW TEMPERATURE OVERNIGHT OF A BONE CHILLING MINUS 14 DEGREES.

A DAILY RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE OF -13 DEGREES WAS ESTABLISHED ON MONDAY DECEMBER 5TH IN BROKEN BOW. THIS DAILY RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE FOR BROKEN BOW OCCURRED ONE MINUTE BEFORE MIDNIGHT ON THE 5TH. THIS ECLIPSED THE OLD RECORD DAILY MINIMUM TEMPERATURE OF -12 DEGREES WHICH WAS SET DECEMBER 5TH IN 2005. AS OF 600 AM CST ON TUESDAY DECEMBER 6TH...THE TEMPERATURE HAD DROPPED AGAIN TO 13 DEGREES BELOW ZERO IN BROKEN BOW. THE RECORD LOWEST TEMPERATURE IN BROKEN BOW FOR DECEMBER 6TH IS MINUS 23 DEGREES...RECORDED IN 1932.

BELOW IS A LISTING OF THE LOWEST TEMPERATURES IN THE PAST 12 HOURS ENDING AT 800 AM CENTRAL STANDARD TIME: